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Oodler 577 via perl5-porters
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March 17, 2023 21:16
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Re: Proposal: Standardize to one space after full stops indocumentation, pod, comments, etc.
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* perl5@tux.freedom.nl <perl5@tux.freedom.nl> [2023-03-17 11:53:37 +0100]:

> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:49:27 +0100, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > TLDR: Single space after a full stop is easier to automate, the current
> > standard taught in school, and minimally impacts reading speed. Let us
> > make the standard be one space after a full stop.
> 
> As with mixed indent: I am in the camp of not caring at all.
> 
> It does not speed up or slow down my reading speed: that is very slow
> as it is already. Maybe this is more important to the native English
> tongues

Doesn't matter, but same here. I do more so pay attention to line
widths and find vertical "rivers"* extremely distracting. HTML
collapses consecutive spaces anyway, which I think is why people
have forgotten this rule.

 *  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

Somebody once said, don't take down a fence until you know why it
was put there in the first place. WWW and the fog of HTML might be
the reason we might not "care" about it.

Anyway, there is a reason this double spacing happens. What is it?

Here's some science on the matter, I mean if anyone trusts it
anymore:

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing#Studies

Wikipedia's article claims improvement are dubious and describes
conflicting results.

Cheers,
Brett

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